As part of its efforts to put the Philippines in the dog world map, the Asian Kennel Club Union of the Philippines, Inc. (AKCUPI) has joined other countries in the Asian region for the 2nd Union of Asian Kennel Clubs (UAKC) General Meeting held May 3 in Seoul, Korea.

Hosted by the Korean Kennel Club (KKC), the meeting was also attended by the Taiwan Kennel Association (TKA), Nippon Police Dog Association (NPDA-Japan), and China Kennel Union (CKU). The AKCUPI delegation was composed of its chairman/president Henry G. Babiera, vice president Edgardo Cruz and corporate secretary John Irvin Uy. The meeting was preceded by UAKC’s first dog show held May 1-2, 2010 where Dr. Jose Alberto Felix Fernandez, president of FCI Spain and AKCUPI VP Edgardo Cruz were among the judges.

to broaden Asia-Pacific membership base.

The Asian Section of Federacion Canina Internacional FCI Spain), the largest and most prestigious purebred dog registering club in the world, has laid the groundwork in its bid to broaden its membership base in the Asia Pacific continent. During its 2nd Plenary Conference held March 15, 2010 in Guangzhou, China, the Asian Section led by the Asian Kennel Club Union of the Philippines, Inc. (AKCUPI) had representatives from the Kennel Union of China (KUC), Sarawak Kennel Association (SKA), East Malaysia Dog Owners Association (EMDOA), Kennel Club of Myanmar (KCM), Korean Kennel Club (KKC), Kennel Club of Japan (KCJ), AKCUPI and Kennel Club Union of Asia (KCUA) close ranks and exchange views and experiences of their respective clubs as inputs to the two-year development program presented by Henry G. Babiera, president of FCI Asian Section and concurrent Chairman/President of AKCUPI. Read the rest of this entry »